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Manchester Airport upgrades NetWare

By Dominic Maher

Published: 8 August 2000 17:32 GMT

Manchester Airport is upgrading its Novell-based network from NetWare 4.11 to the latest version, NetWare 5.1.

Due to be complete by October 2000, the airport's system features 800 Compaq workstations running Microsoft Windows NT as the application operating system (OS), with nine network servers running NetWare 4.11 as the server OS.

Peter Burgess, head of Information Services delivery at Manchester Airport said: "The reason we've gone for the upgrade is due to the fact that we wanted a flat IP-based network, which is what we get from NetWare".

Burgess added that he had no plans to switch to NT on the network OS side believing it could not offer the same performance as NetWare.

Network management and configuration at the airport, which handles more than 180,000 aircraft movements each year, is controlled by NDS Corporate Edition, Novell's multi-platform directory services technology.

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